Hello,
After 7 years on 5 mg diazepam and 5 mg alprazolam I finally completely stopped taking both around one month ago. I did the Aston method, I started almost 1 year ago, by substituting a little bit of alprazolam with diazepam till I was only taking diazepam then I began gradually decreasing the diazepam till I was taking 1.75. One month ago I stopped entirely. Since then I have been feeling bad then worse and worse and now I am desperate.
Basically my symptoms are I cannot sleep, have very negative thoughts, especially involving being completely scared of the dark at night when I go to bed, and being crazy terrified of a phobia to insects that I have sort of always had. But that's not all, during the day I have begun lately (for the past week or so) to feel very dizzy and like I have a big weight pulling me down from my feet, and I have a weird feeling of irreality. I also have paranoid thoughts about people wanting to do something bad to me etc.
Anyway, the thing is since I cannot stand this feelings anymore I was wondering if maybe I have done this too quick, if maybe I should have continued with the 1.75 for a bit longer. And I am thinking if it would be ok to start taking a bit of diazepam again, to stop the withdrawal symptoms, for example start taking the 1.75 mg again to feel better. With the 1.75 I already felt sort of weird and dizzy but nowhere close to the hell of negative thoughts and paranoias and dizziness that I am going through now.
If someone can give me some advice it'd be very appreciated. Thanks.
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